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Desert-Themed Horror Movies

Desert horror movies in the middle of summer - makes you realize there are worse horrors than your rising humidity levels!Joy Ride: Two brothers and a girl love interest hit the road to head east from the west, but they are interrupted by the outcome of a CB radio prank they pulled on a trucker. Only this trucker doesn't get the joke and he's deadly serious. This is one of my favorites. Starring Paul Walker.

The Hitcher: A young man gets a job to drive a car across country for a company and when he gets a bit tired, he figures he'll pick up a hitchhiker to help keep him awake, only he picked the wrong man and it's deadly. Starring C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer. This is a classic if you like super tense movies.

Duel: An irritable businessman is tormented on the road by a semi-truck driver with an attitude. Starring Dennis Weaver.

Hills Have Eyes: "They wanted to see something different, but something different saw them first" I doubt there is a single time Julie and I aren't in the desert on a road trip that we don't think about this movie and mention it when we pass areas with lots of hills and boulders. It's the ultimate horror. One of my favorites (1977 version).

Them: 1950s Scifi classic about giant ants attacking the citizens in the desert. One of my Scifi classic favorites.

Boy and His Dog: A tongue-in-cheek post-apocalyptic film starring Don Johnson as a guy trekking around the wasteland with a dog that can talk to him.

The Car: A small desert town is tormented by a driverless car that attacks. Starring James Brolin. This one is pretty unsettling and it does a nice job of giving that small desert town feel.

Gargoyles: A professor and his daughter on a trek through the desert to collect unusual archaeological finds run into a mythical creature that's real - Gargoyles! One of my all-time favorite made-for-tv format types of campy creep show.

Cowboys and Aliens: It's 1873 and a spaceship arrives in Arizona. A collective of cowboys and indians await a battle.

Tremors: A desert town is attacked by "graboid" creatures from underground. Starring Kevin Bacon. I consider this a cult favorite.

From Dusk Until Dawn: Starring George Clooney. Kidnappers and hostages seek shelter in a vampire den.

House of 1000 Corpses: Teenager trekking through Texas are terrorized by a killing family.

The Devil's Rejects: A murdering family takes to the road to escape as cops chase them down.

The Road Warrior: Starring Mel Gibson. Postapocalyptic-themed movie and the badass gangs that fight in the bleak landscape.

Breakdown: Starring Kurt Russell, a man and his wife break down in the desert and when his wife takes a ride from a helpful trucker and doesn't show up, he must track her down and get her away from those holding her for ransom.

Disappearance: A family traveling through Nevada runs into trouble when checking out a ghost town.

The Mummy: Starring Brendan Fraser. A group sets out to find a mythical pyramid and its treasure to end up having to deal with a mummy brought to life.

Stargate: Starring Kurt Russell. A device is found in the Egyptian desert that allows teleportation to other planets.

Maximum Overdrive: Machines have developed a mind of their own and are turning on humans. A group of people are trapped in a diner while trucks and cars encircle them and threaten to hold them captive indefinitely.

Thirst: Two couples wreck their car 80 miles from civilization.Resident Evil: Extinction: Survivors of a catastrophe head out across the Nevada desert in a fight against an evil organization.**This afternoon there will be another desert-themed posting about the Khandahar Giant**

The town of Hawthorne, Nevada harbors a big 18-mile x 8-mile lake called Walker Lake. It also houses a guarded "Naval Undersea Warfare Center." This amazing lake has not one structure to support the locals enjoying a swim or some fishing, but does have some kind of base along its western edge. It has also been associated with some pretty amazing conjecture.

Carve out eye sockets to be big holes. Carve out mouth so it's a grimacing hole. Carve out cheekbone slashes like skeleton look.

Mix 2 parts glue to 1 part water. Cut burlap into uneven pieces. Fray the edges by pulling on them and letting strings unravel. Dip into the glue/water mix, wring it out and place around the head. Use straight pins to pin it down on curves so it sticks. In a few hours it will dry hard.

Now, take black paint and thin out with some water - about 2 parts black paint to one part water. Dip brush into it, now push brush into the pores of the burlap so the black goes into the holes. Take a baby wipe a…